Alwayshappy

Can see you see it that way Makes sense!

How I always saw it: the ''shock'' had nothing to do with their age. It had everything to do with how unprepared they were. And that came full circle.

ERussia

Well, yeah. But Rory is grown enough to know that unprotected sex will make you preggo.
They need another season set like 15 years in future when Rory's daughter will get pregnant too.

Alwayshappy

There are couples who get pregnant, because the condom broke, or something like that. It's not a 100% guarantee, so it can happen to everyone

Gelfling

less than 1% chance but in movies and tv shows, it happens way more than that

That's a good point actually, especially considering Logan is also having sex with someone else. Apparently this is not the 90ies anymore but yeah hmmm STDs are still a thing, tv writers and pregnant is not the worst thing you can get from unprotected sex with multiple partners.

Gelfling

Network tv is dying a slow death. Numbers are taking a huge dive for every show and still they keep trying the same thing over and over.

It's like they think if they keep trying, Netflix and cable will disappear

ERussia

The thing is that Netflix is pretty much like network television and lost everything that made in unique, tbh. IMO.
I'm also sick of cable "main hero is drug addict".

Alwayshappy

Yeah, I wonder what the future holds. I wouldn't be surprised if more and more were to be produced by Netflix, or similiar sites.

There's a nice discount on several blu-ray boxes in the Netherlands atm. Thinking of getting the House of Cards 1-4 box, aswell as Orange is the New Black 1-3. Tried HoC once for a few episodes and then quit, because there were no likeable characters, but everyone keeps saying I should keep watching. For 30 bucks...sure I saw the pilot from Orange. Liked it, but never continued it for some reason, so.

Not that I will watch them anytime soon though. Still watching McLeod's Daugthers on dvd and then we have this weekly list of shows that we watch: Bones, Chicago Fire, Chicago PD, Chicago Med, This is Us, Grey's Anatomy, How to get away with Murder, Big Bang Theory. Game of Thrones and Once Upon a Time are also part of the schedule, but they are not on the air yet. Then we also have our dvd's where we rewatch things, or binge watch shows that we wanted to watch in a row (Homeland in the future - tho we saw the first 3 already, Person of Interest in the past...Fringe..Newsroom, etc). Good thing Jos has two weeks of holiday coming up

Gelfling

Well that's not entirely true. They just make what people want to watch, or what they think people want to watch, as extrapolated from what people do watch on Netflix. There are more misses than hits lately though, mostly because people are idiots who will watch anything but also because they are trying to hit too wide, imo.

They're still making extraordinary niche shows like The OA but obviously it's one in 10 shows now and they are not going to get much traction from these because they are not made for the masses.

is that a thing, really? I don't watch many shows on cable anymore.

or Amazon. They are in a unique position to know what appeals to viewers, and to be free of Nielsen ratings. They get real numbers and real demographics of actual audiences. Not just crystal ball statistical projections.

They're going to have to be more discerning though. And more careful in terms of production quality.

Season ratings are massively down on every network for almost every show, even those who were hits just last year so I think they're going to have to either rethink their model or just do reality tv

I wouldn't pay for OITNB but HoC had a great couple of seasons.

Heh tv holidays are not bad

I'm not watching any show currently airing. I'm waiting for Black Sails to end so I can catch up but besides that, none of the mid-season shows grabbed me and the long running shows are just not for me I guess.

ERussia

I miss these days when Netflix was indie and hip.
Yep, I think every cable show has this story. Sans TWD and GOT probably. I was watching Knick and it was such a good medical show before they moved focus on main character addiction.

Alwayshappy

Weren't you watching Homeland atm?

Gelfling

Heh well they got popular so...

Ah. Well, I am not a fan of Soderbergh and the first season felt pretty flat so I didn't mourn for it really.

Nope. I was so bored by the first episode of the season, I decided to wait for a few episodes to air so I can watch and decide if I'm going to watch more.

ERussia

Yep but there are lot of more examples to it. Nurse Jackie, Sopranos, Homeland, etc. It's just so boring most of the times.
Maybe when cable was on the rise it was original (even when broadcast networks did it before), but pretty much every freaking cable show had this plot.

Alwayshappy

That explains it If I have to believe some people around me it's a good season so far.

Gelfling

Well it's the main topic of Nurse Jackie and it's a great show so I don't see it as a generic gimmick like in The Knick. I can't tell about the others but in a lot of shows, it's used as an excuse when they have no idea what to do, it's true.

My sister is watching it and she thought the same about the premiere as I did, but she's enjoying the other episodes. I'll probably check it later. I guess I'm not really in the mood for a show centered around terrorism. Seems like there's way too much of it in the world for me to look for it in my escape time.

ERussia

Yep, that's it. I enjoyed Nurse Jackie too, but it kinda overstayed it's welcome. It wasn't a good example, I guess. But a lot of shows really do this for ratings stunt and cheap drama. There are some few good examples of it obviously, but for the most part it's bad.